Naomi is starting to have some great imaginative play. It has come from a lot of work and modeling, mostly by Ruth and I, with the other kids playing with her on occasion.
However, Naomi's preferred way to play is to gather her toys up and put them in anything that will carry them. When this behavior first started, she was two and it was an Easter basket. Since it has been baskets, bags, boxes, toy shopping carts, really anything that holds objects, even when it is too small (which is often a source of great frustration that leads to some of our bigger tantrums that we still frequently have-small compared to the past though). Her favorite is her dinosaur backpack. If she is playing this way, she completely flips out if you try to take anything from her collection, which is very frustrating to the other kids since she is not "playing" with it. This is a major source of fights in our house.
Rich and I were cleaning the entry way and found this box. We both sighed then laughed. This is such a common thing to find in our home.
I think the funniest I ever discovered was when we changed the master bedroom from the playroom to our bedroom, and I went to put something in one of the master bath drawers, and could not open it because it was crammed so full.
The most embarrassing and upsetting was the time she attached to a little tin at the Goodwill, and refused to give it up even to have it ringed up. Once we were in the car and had left, we discovered she'd filled it with random little toys.
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